Newark police arrested a man for a March murder on Tuesday, authorities say.Star-Ledger file photo

NEWARK — A man was arrested Tuesday for a murder in the city’s South Ward last month, police said.

Laquan Dwight, 29, was arrested by the city’s Fugitive Apprehension Team and charged in the killing of 22-year-old Anthony Flowers the night of March 3, said Newark police.

Flowers and another man were shot on the 300-block of Avon Avenue at 8:30 p.m., said Sgt. Ronald Glover. Flowers was pronounced dead a short time later, while the other man survived and was later stabilized at University Hospital, he added.

The Essex County Prosecutor's Homicide Task Force investigated the killing, and secured warrants for Dwight's arrest, said authorities.

At the time of his arrest, Dwight was found to be in possession of a .22-caliber revolver, two bricks of heroin and drug paraphernalia, police said. He is now charged with murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and unlawful possession of a weapon – in addition to several drug charges, Glover said.

The shooting Dwight allegedly was part of was the second in a bloody night in Newark. The first was when an Oldsmobile Alero was pursued by a Jeep along Irvine Turner Boulevard – and shots rang out around 5 p.m., authorities said at the time. A 19-year-old passenger of the Oldsmobile was killed – and so was a 43-year-old woman who was an innocent bystander in a separate car stopped at a red light, authorities said.

No arrests have reportedly been made in the Irvine Turner Boulevard killings.

Sheilah Coley, the city’s police director, commended the city’s Fugitive Apprehension Team in tracking down Dwight.

“This unit has done an extraordinary job to ensure that this suspect was captured and will be prosecuted for the crime he committed,” Coley said.